The Diatessaron of Tatian

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Author of the Diatessaron</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.-The </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Diatessaron </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is such an impersonal work that we do not need to know very much about its compiler. It will suffice here to say that he tells us himself that he was born in the land of the Assyrians and brought up a heathen. After travelling in search of knowledge he settled at Rome where he became a pupil of Justin Martyr professed Christianity and wrote in Greek his </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Address to the Greeks</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> translated in vol. iii. of the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ante-Nicene Christian Library</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. He was too independent in his attitude to maintain a permanent popularity and after Justin's death left Rome and returned to Mesopotamia. It was probably here that he issued in Syriac his most important work the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Diatessaron</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> which won such a warm place in the heart of the Syrian church. Among the Greek scholars however he became more and more regarded as a heretic Encratite (ascetic) and Gnostic.</span></p><p></p>